A few years ago, I wrote a column called “The Joy of Hate, our 5 Biggest Rivals.” It was well received and hated by the right kind of people and the target audience. When ET was in the Lone Star Conference, we were around for almost a century and basically knew who we hated, kind…
Some of you might remember a few diatribes ago I went a bit of a controlled rant where I basically said that the music played before and during the games was tawdry, disgusting, awful, tasteless, classless, and just flat out unfriendly to the human ear. In the aftermath of that, I had a lot of…
Chances are you are you wearing something that is the product of a crop that millions of Americans in the South and the United States have picked, harvested, and planted for over 300 years. Cotton. Many songs have been written about it, especially if it was by a person who picked cotton as a kid.…
It is hard to believe that East Texas A&M University has completed it’s transition to being a full fledged of NCAA Division I’s athletic establishment. Last night on The Call The Roll Podcast I discussed Men’s Basketball and scheduling big names came up during the podcast. It also got me thinking that now that our…
Back in 2016, something happened that really showed me some of us Lions have a lot to learn when it comes to “fansmanship.” After a 5-0 start, the Lions faced the always tough Bill Maskill coached Midwestern State Mustangs. It was a game in Commerce on a beautiful fall evening and it was another big…
Have you been on Interstate 30 lately? Chances are you have been. I haven’t and for good reason. How about Highway 380 between Denton and Greenville? Yep, sure have, and I have seen all I need to see. So, what does traffic have to do with our transition to being a Division I institution? Well,…
Today it was announced that the late Mike Leach, the former head football coach at Texas Tech, Washington State, and Mississippi State, an innovator in college football and character persona number one in college football, would now be eligible to be in the College Football Hall of Fame. As someone who still is in absolute…
When the news broke that the Texas A&M University system was going to finally approve the construction of a new events center that would host our Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams, along with the Volleyball program among other things, I was excited like to much of Lion nation. I also had some ideas that I…
I will never forget my first on campus visit to what was then Texas A&M-Commerce. Spring of 2005. I took my first walk around campus and on the old quad where the Rayburn Student Center used to be, scribbled in chalk there was written RUSH PIKE 2005 or Rush EX and then two large letters…
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